Regarding Path’s Mass-Uploading of User Data ⇥

Peter Clark:

This is why developers need explicit guidelines, because as they just demonstrated if there are no guidelines companies default to the thing that exploits the end user!

In response to Path’s CEO:

This is currently the industry best practice and the App Store guidelines do not specifically discuss contact information. However, as mentioned, we believe users need further transparency on how this works, so we’ve been proactively addressing this.

Translation: “we got caught doing something we didn’t tell anyone about, but nobody told us not to so we assumed it was okay.”